The hardest state to do was Tennessee, because it was difficult to find a topic that was searched more in Tennessee than in other states. Finally, "Elvis Presley" filled the bill. Nebraska ("Jazzercise" and "shuffleboard") and South Dakota ("Nickelback") also presented challenges, Nickum said.

For each state, Nickum provides a tongue-in-cheek analysis. For Missouri, whose only topics were ""Family Circus" (the comic strip) and "Nelly" (the rapper), the analysis was "Missouri's wi-fi must have gone out sometime in 2002."

Reaction to the post has been mostly positive, with kinder words appearing on Twitter than in comments to the blog post, Nickum said.

"Largely, people understood that it was all in good fun," he said. "I think it's an interesting way to look at differences among states."